{"id":502000,"date":"2026-06-21T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=502000"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:20:57","slug":"panathinaikos-an-unprecedented-budget-to-build-a-powerhouse-roster-for-coach-obradovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/panathinaikos-an-unprecedented-budget-to-build-a-powerhouse-roster-for-coach-obradovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Panathinaikos: An Unprecedented Budget to Build a Powerhouse Roster for Coach Obradovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SDNA reporter George Zakkas on X after the official return of Zeljko Obradovic to Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8220;A record-breaking deal for the greatest coach of all time. According to SDNA <\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">sources, Panathinaikos and Zeljko Obradovic have agreed to a three-year contract worth \u20ac12 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u00a0On top of that, Dimitris Giannakopoulos is set to increase the club\u2019s annual budget by a further \u20ac10 million, creating a financial powerhouse unlike anything European basketball has ever seen. The message is clear: Panathinaikos is going all out in its pursuit of European glory, with one goal and one goal only \u2014 returning to the top of Europe&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering that the Greek powerhouse spent just over \u20ac25 million on player salaries alone during the season that has just concluded\u2014a figure already unmatched in the EuroLeague\u2014Zakkas&#8217; observation appears particularly accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Panathinaikos&#8217; financial strength will allow the club to pursue potentially game-changing additions on the transfer market, including players from the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>One example is Jonas Valanciunas, who <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jonas-valanciunas-drawing-euroleague-interest-from-panathinaikos-zalgiris-and-fenerbahce\/\">has been linked<\/a> with a possible move to Athens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A record-breaking deal for the greatest coach of all time. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SdnaGr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SdnaGr<\/a> sources, Panathinaikos and Zeljko Obradovic have agreed to a three-year contract worth \u20ac12 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/paobc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#paobc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Dimitris Giannakopoulos is set to increase the club\u2019s annual budget by a\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; George Zakkas (@ZakkasGeorge) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZakkasGeorge\/status\/2068678957860372924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos&#8217; financial strength will allow the club to pursue potentially game-changing additions on the transfer market, including players from the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":497574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-502000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Jonas-Valanciunas.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502000"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=502000"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=502000"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=502000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}